When Sarah Whitehead was born on 9 December 1815, in Florence, Lauderdale, Alabama, United States, her father, Archibald Whitehead Sr., was 32 and her mother, Nancy Smith, was 24. She married David Price about 1836, in Lauderdale, Alabama, United States. She died before 1925, in United States.
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Historical Boundaries: 1818: Lauderdale, Alabama Territory, United States 1819: Lauderdale, Alabama, United States
With the Aftermath of the Napoleonic Wars the global market for trade was down. During this time, America had its first financial crisis and it lasted for only two years.
Alabama became the twenty-second state admitted to the Union on December 14, 1819.
English: nickname from Middle English whit ‘white’ + hed ‘head’ (Old English hwīt + hēafod), denoting a person with white or fair hair. Occasionally perhaps from Middle English whīt ‘white’ + hod ‘hood’ (Old English hwīt + hōd).
Irish: adopted by erroneous translation of Ó Ceanndubháin ‘descendant of the little black-headed one’ (see Canavan ), as if from Gaelic ceann ‘head’ + bán ‘white’.
Americanized form (translation into English) of German Weisshaupt (see Weishaupt ) or Weisskopf (see Weiskopf ).
Dictionary of American Family Names © Patrick Hanks 2003, 2006.
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